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Heading South (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 80

Fresh: 55

Rotten:25

Average Rating: 6.6/10

Consensus: As touching as it is disturbing, Heading South is an unconventional exploration of desire and longing, with superb performances and direction.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jul 7, 2006 Limited

Box Office: $472,683

Synopsis: Laurent Cantet's feature film stars Charlotte Rampling and is set in 1970s Haiti. The film examines a time and place in which wealthy women from the east headed to the country in search of sexual... Laurent Cantet's feature film stars Charlotte Rampling and is set in 1970s Haiti. The film examines a time and place in which wealthy women from the east headed to the country in search of sexual fulfillment among its young male population. [More]

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal

Director: Laurent Cantet

Director: Laurent Cantet

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A trio of middle-aged white women from different backgrounds relish the tropical pleasures of '70s era Haiti, which includes local teenage gigolos, in writer/director Laurent Cantet's problematic filmic adaptation of three short stories by Dany Laferriere

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/23/09
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/18/08
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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

What Heading South says through careful omission or brief allusion is often more interesting than what it says on the clunky surface.

Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
06/09/08
Robert Davis
Paste Magazine

Erotic drama that probes lust, a police state and exploitation in the idyllic sunny climes of Haiti.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/18/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It also boasts another rich performance by Charlotte Rampling who continues to grow more interesting as an actress.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
03/26/08
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Una película lúcida y algo desconcertante sobre los deseos y fantasías de un trío de mujeres en vacaciones, con el trasfondo de la dura realidad haitiana del régimen de Duvalier.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
03/22/07
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

The film triumphs as a prism for intimate, personal truths.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

This fascinating flick, using physical desire as a metaphor, examines political problems plaguing Haiti in the Seventies while simultaneously exploring pleasure purely from an older woman's point-of-view.

Full Review Source: EURWeb | comment Comment
02/04/07
Kam Williams
EURWeb

an intense experience

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01/28/07
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
01/06/07
Sydney Morning Herald

While an important message is at the movie's core, Cantet just can't find a way to make us care.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
01/04/07
David Cornelius
DVDTalk.com

Hot sex in the Haitian sun is the main thrust of Laurent Cantet's Heading South, but melancholy and loneliness are the film's key emotions.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
12/14/06
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

... a shot of reality disguised as an umbrella drink, and is as uncomfortable an experience as having sand stuck in your swimming suit.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
11/30/06
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Okay, we'll admit that the ideal of being fawned over and adored by half-dressed men has some appeal, but this movie doesn't... sex in paradise shouldn't be this uninteresting.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
11/30/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Heading South opens up a fascinating world of complexities, some of which are there on the screen although others open up only once the horizon line moves past the screen's edge.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
11/30/06
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

"Heading South" is more of a middling film precisely because it is so obviously tackling an issue and making a statement. As a result, the characters and the story suffer.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
10/19/06
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Where does Legba go when he leaves? Neither the women nor the director seem to care.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
10/19/06
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

A compact drama boiling over with political and sexual subtext, Heading South gives us yet another opportunity to soak up the wonder that is Charlotte Rampling.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
10/13/06
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star
N/R

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